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1 Paul D. Clement (DC Bar 433215) pclement@bancroftpllc.com 2 H. Christopher Bartolomucci (DC Bar 453423) 3 cbartolomucci@bancroftpllc.com Nicholas J. Nelson (DC Bar 1001696) 4 nnelson@bancroftpllc.com 5 Michael H. McGinley (DC Bar 1006943) mmcginley@bancroftpllc.com 6 7 BANCROFT PLLC 1919 M Street, N.W. 8 Suite 470 9 Washington, D.C. 20036 10 202-234-0090 (telephone) 202-234-2806 (facsimile) 11 12 Of Counsel: Kerry W. Kircher, General Counsel (DC Bar 386816) 13 Kerry.Kircher@mail.house.gov 14 William Pittard, Deputy General Counsel (DC Bar 482949) William.Pittard@mail.house.gov 15 Christine Davenport, Senior Assistant Counsel (NJ Bar 043682000) 16 Christine.Davenport@mail.house.gov Todd B. Tatelman, Assistant Counsel (VA Bar 66008) 17 Todd.Tatelman@mail.house.gov 18 Mary Beth Walker, Assistant Counsel (DC Bar 501033) MaryBeth.Walker@mail.house.gov 19 Eleni M. Roumel, Assistant Counsel (SC Bar 75763) 20 Eleni.Roumel@mail.house.gov 21 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL, 22 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 219 Cannon House Office Building 23 Washington, D.C. 20515 24 202-225-9700 (telephone) 202-226-1360 (facsimile) 25 26 Counsel for Intervenor-Defendant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives 27 28

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Western Division ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

4 TRACEY COOPER-HARRIS and MAGGIE COOPER-HARRIS, 5 Plaintiffs, 6 v. 7 8 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., 9 10 11 and 12 BIPARTISAN LEGAL ADVISORY GROUP OF THE U.S. HOUSE 13 OF REPRESENTATIVES, 14 15 16 Intervenor-Defendant. Defendants,

No. 2:12-cv-00887-CBM (AJWx) RESPONSE OF INTERVENOR-DEFENDANT TO PLAINTIFFS NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL AUTHORITY

Intervenor-Defendant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S.

17 House of Representatives (House) respectfully submits this response to the 18 purported Notice of Supplemental Authority (Notice) filed by Plaintiffs on 19 January 28, 2013. (ECF No. 78). Plaintiffs filed their Notice to inform the court 20 of a brief submitted by a court-appointed Amica Curiae regarding certain 21 jurisdictional questions raised by the Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor, 22 No. 12-307 (U.S. 2013). In other words, the authority to which Plaintiffs direct 23 this Court is an advocacy piece addressing one side of each of the questions posed 24 by the Supreme Court.1 It is not a court order or other authority on which this 25
The Windsor briefing schedule permits three briefs in response, one from each of the 26 parties in the case. See Briefing Schedule (Dec. 14, 2012), available at http://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/PDFs/121412zr.pdf. Responsive briefs from the parties 27 are due on February 22, 2013. Order (Jan. 8, 2013), docket available at http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/12-307.htm. At a minimum, 28 the House will argue that the Supreme Court has standing to hear the case.
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1 Court might rely. Nor does it provide additional facts relevant to this case that 2 were not previously available to the parties. Instead, it is in effect, a back-door 3 approach by Plaintiffs of the submission of an unpermitted sur-reply in support of 4 their opposition to the Houses Motion . . . to Stay Proceedings (Dec.13, 2012) 5 (ECF No. 69). See L.R. 7-10 (Absent prior written order of the Court, the 6 opposing party shall not file a response to the reply.). 7 Accordingly, the Court should disregard and strike Plaintiffs Notice of

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Respectfully submitted, By: /s/ H. Christopher Bartolomucci H. Christopher Bartolomucci BANCROFT PLLC2 Counsel for Intervenor-Defendant the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives3 January 31, 2013

24 of the document has been obtained from signatory H. Christopher Bartolomucci. 3 25 The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, which speaks for the House in litigation matters, 26 Eric Cantor, Majority Leader, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip, the Honorable 27 Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader, and the Honorable Steny H. Hoyer, Democratic Whip. The
currently is comprised of the Honorable John A. Boehner, Speaker of the House, the Honorable

Kerry W. Kircher, as ECF filer of this document, attests that concurrence in the filing

Democratic Leader and the Democratic Whip have declined to support the position taken by the 28 Group on the merits of DOMA Section 3s constitutionality in this case.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I certify that on January 31, 2013, I electronically filed the foregoing

3 Response of Intervenor-Defendant to Plaintiffs Notice of Supplemental Authority 4 with the Clerk of Court by using the CM/ECF system, which provided an 5 electronic notice and electronic link of the same to the following attorneys of 6 record through the Courts CM/ECF system: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Caren E. Short, Esquire Christine P. Sun, Esquire Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Esquire SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 400 Washington Avenue Montgomery, Alabama 36104 caren.short@splcenter.org christine.sun@splcenter.org joe.levin@splcenter.org Counsel for Plaintiffs Adam P. Romero, Esquire Rubina Ali, Esquire WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE & DORR LLP 7 World Trade Center New York City, New York 10007 adam.romero@wilmerhale.com rubina.ali@wilmerhale.com Counsel for Plaintiffs Eugene Marder, Esquire WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE & DORR LLP 950 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, California 94304 eugene.marder@wilmerhale.com Counsel for Plaintiffs

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Randall R. Lee, Esquire Matthew D. Benedetto, Esquire WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE & DORR LLP 350 South Grand Avenue Suite 2100 Los Angeles, California 90071 randall.lee@wilmerhale.com matthew.benedetto@wilmerhale.com Counsel for Plaintiffs Jean Lin, Senior Trial Counsel U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Civil Division - Federal Programs Branch 20 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia 20530 jean.lin@usdoj.gov Counsel for Executive Branch Defendants

/s/ Mary Beth Walker Mary Beth Walker